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Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Social Welfare Payments
Marian Harkin
653. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending illness benefit to those workers who are also in receipt of another social welfare payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54659/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Mortgage Resolution Processes
Marian Harkin
667. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection when funding will be put in place to continue the abhaile scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54868/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Child Poverty
Marian Harkin
742. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to develop a new National Child Poverty Plan to address high levels of poverty in households headed by one parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55755/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Assisted Decision-Making
Marian Harkin
767. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated timeline for publication of the codes of practice under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. [54865/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Assisted Decision-Making
Marian Harkin
768. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated timeline for the publication of the court rules under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. [54866/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Grant Payments
Marian Harkin
801. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will consider adding graduate-entry medicine students to the SUSI grant scheme to help alleviate the costs of that programme for low-income students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54150/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Third Level Fees
Marian Harkin
802. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason for the omission of graduate-entry medicine students from lowered contribution fees for higher education students announced in budget 2023, during a time of a shortage of doctors and medical staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54151/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Third Level Fees
Marian Harkin
803. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the supports available to students to alleviate the high cost of the graduate-entry medicine programme at University College Dublin (details supplied); the plans in place to bring the fees down in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54152/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Hospital Staff
Marian Harkin
952. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the number of staff who have been recruited in Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital as of 24 October 2022 to implement the winter plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54344/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Health Services
Marian Harkin
966. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health when named day centres (details supplied) will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54410/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Freedom of Information
Marian Harkin
968. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the actions that his Department will take to supply information requested under a freedom of information request to a named person (details supplied). [54416/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Vaccination Programme
Marian Harkin
1015. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the number of house-bound persons still awaiting a second Covid-19 vaccine; the plans in place to administer the second and third booster vaccinations to this cohort (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54573/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Vaccination Programme
Marian Harkin
1018. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a second booster vaccine; the reason that this has not happened to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54607/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Medical Cards
Marian Harkin
1043. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if an emergency medical card will be extended for a person (details supplied). [54661/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Marian Harkin
1087. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health following an agreement of the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work on the need to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease, if he plans to make Covid-19 an occupational injury in Ireland; the plans that are in place to support those suffering long term effects of Covid which was contracted in the course of their work during the height of the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54861/22]
Tue, 8 Nov 2022
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Forestry Sector
Marian Harkin
1262. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request that the forestry appeals committee provides him with an explanation as to the reason the committee will not receive appeals against forestry licences through electronic means, given the very narrow window for making an appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54553/22]
Thu, 27 Oct 2022
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Forestry Sector
Marian Harkin
312. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that the Forest Service does not routinely require the licensee to provide his Department with notification of when felling works are to be commenced and concluded, even where felling licences are issued for a period of ten years, given his role in monitoring and enforcing forestry licences (details supplied). [53914/22]
Thu, 27 Oct 2022
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Forestry Sector
Marian Harkin
313. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he, as a shareholder in Coillte Teoranta, will clarify information regarding the estimated volume of timber to be felled under felling licences dated 2021, granted by his Department (details supplied). [53915/22]
Thu, 27 Oct 2022
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Forestry Sector
Marian Harkin
314. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he, as a shareholder in Coillte Teoranta, will provide a detailed explanation as to the reason that the area of forest classed as 'High Conservation Value Forest' managed by Coillte has decreased by 11,016 hectares (approximately 10%) from 107,083 hectares to 96,097 hectares over the past 12 months, according to reports (details supplied). [53916/22]
Wed, 26 Oct 2022
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Daylight Savings Time
Marian Harkin
52. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans in relation to daylight savings time; his views on the merits of forgoing the winter daylight saving time change given the current energy crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53664/22]